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6th Floor Blog

About 6th Floor Blog

6th Floor Blog is written in a conversational style. It focuses on the life and adventures of six roommates living in an apartment together in Manhattan. For our first post and a explanation for the colors, go here.

“It only took me like two weeks, but now the blog is finally on it’s own domain. And I moved it to WordPress!”

“So long Blogger! You know, you’re probably going to take an SEO hit for this.”

“SEO?”

“Search Engine Optimization.”

“I thought you found that process to unindex and forward everything from blogger?

“I found some stuff, but it’s rather clunky and not going to work perfectly. Especially since so many people out there have their links set to the old place.”

“Well, probably not that many. Hopefully this move will help us really get a fanbase and a following and all that silly stuff. WordPress rocks right?”

“It’s alright..I’ve never been a huge fan of it myself. I did learn some css and php redesigning the templates for the blog though.”

“You bringing the Twitter feed over?”

“No. I never updated it anyway.”

“Twitter sucks anyway. It’s not like we do anything interesting that needs to be updated like ohmygod immediately.”

“I can schedule posts with WordPress apparently, get a queue up and not have to worry about it.”

“Because you’ve usually got enough posts written for that? Aren’t you usually scrambling just to update regularly, never mind in advance?”

“Hey now..I’ve been updating pretty well in 2009. And maybe being able to advance schedule posts will get me motivated.”

“Anyway, the design is still a little rough. Lots of work to do on it. I’ll get to it though, it’s functional now.”

“Well, that’s the first step.”

“I see it didn’t copy over the links. Ha..Not it on copying them over.”

“Ugh. Well this is the perfect opportunity. If anyone out there had/wants a link on our site, they can contact us again now. (6thfloorblog@gmail.com) Since I’m working on it anyway. Then they can put our updated link on their site, and boom, instant SEO boost.”

Again, please update your links to www.ceetar.com/6thfloor The blog will be updated there shortly. Likely this is the last post via blogger.

Presenting 6th Floor Blog’s Oscar nominees for must-see movies!

The Dark Knight

It seems like this movie only got recognition because Heath Ledger died after doing an excellent job portraying the Joker, but it was really an excellent movie. I’d even venture to say the best Batman movie ever.

I agree. It was a great movie; suspense, action, excitement. It borrowed from the comics obviously, but it was an original story, and a compelling one.

The only thing to debate is if you liked the Bond Girl, or if the movie didn’t have enough over the top explosions.

Wanted

This is certainly not a serious movie, and as such would never ever be considered a ‘great’ movie, but I sure enjoyed watching it.

Sometimes complete ridiculousness, like curving bullets, is fun. All the silly stuff they do such as Angelina Jolie (and that’s almost enough of a reason to see a movie in it of herself) scooping up the cowering ‘hero’ with her car., is just zany. Sometimes it’s more fun to just say ‘screw physics’.

We may be biased about this one, being in New York, but I felt this was a rather compelling movie, despite all the crazy cult hype.

The problem was people looking for a monster movie or comparing it to Godzilla. It wasn’t about the monster, it was about the journey of the characters through the city while the monster attacked.

The reason they didn’t just run for the border was a little bit of a stretch, but after you accept that, it was interesting. I enjoyed the different way it was filmed, as if from the camera the guy carried around the whole movie.

Now that was a little contrived. Who would keep carrying the damn thing around at that point? It must’ve been an awesome camera, but still, good movie.

“I haven’t really seen any of those movies. I was talking about this with Sara, I don’t think these are ever really the ‘best’ movies of the year. They only consider a small subset of movies,always the ‘artsy’ ones.”

“I almost never have seen many of the nominees, I watch movies for entertainment.”

“I think most people do. I’d rather read a book for a great story, there is only so much you can do in a two hour movie.”

“I’m going to make myself a list of the real best movies of the year. “

“Oooh..I’ll help you with that.” Scott says, dropping off Frank’s drink.

Please update any links and such to www.ceetar.com/6thfloor. Sometime this week I’ll be switching everything to there and updating the blog at that url and via wordpress. This is also the perfect time to contact us about exchanging links or site suggestions or whatever.

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Sara and Frank stroll into the 6th floor Wednesday night and Ann looks up from her book.

“Where have you guys been?”

“I got these two free tickets to see a pre-release screening of a movie. Sounded cool, so I took Frank.”

“Aww, a date. How cute.”

“He was just the only one around when I got home today to go with me.”

“The benefits of not having a ‘real’ job!”

“What was the movie?”

“Taking Woodstock, directed by Ang Lee.”

“It was surprisingly good. Based on the autobiography of Elliot Tiber.”

“His parents owned a failing motel upstate, and he helped get the Woodstock people to come play there.”

“There was plenty of raving nudity and drug use too. The whole movie was like a ‘free love’ rave.”

“Seems to be how I’d think of Woodstock.”

“I was surprised how much I liked it actually. Woodstock wasn’t really my scene. And he never even made it to the stage!”

“That amused me too. And how the Turnpike was backed up for miles that they had to close it. You know they’re having a Woodstock 2009 right?”

“It can’t be the same. You can’t recapture that peaceful mania.”

“There would be too much security, too much worry, too many restrictions.”

“The police would be there in force, arresting thousands of people. No way people would be skinny dipping, doing drugs, and having sex all over the place these days.”

“No way. Like I said, no way you can recapture that. It’s pure nostalgia.”

Quick note before I get on with the post. I’ve connected with a domain, so now the official link of the blog is www.ceetar.com/6thfloorblog. Likely switching to wordpress, but working on getting the starts of an acceptable theme setup, so as of now, that link redirects. But it won’t. I’ve commissioned Sara to start tweaking some stuff, for instance, the width of the site. It was stupid and small prior, and I always felt like things were getting squished. I should’ve done this a while ago. I also need to fix the header graphic now, as it looks tiny.

“Vegas was a blast, but I’m glad I got the red-eye and am here for Super Bowl Sunday! Woo, go Steelers!”

“I think I’m going with the underdog story in the Cardinals.”

“I’m just hoping it ends. Some cool commercials, like last year, couldn’t hurt.”